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Show 128 February 29th I will not record this date again for four years-and what will four years develop? Time alone can tell. This ends one winter of the three I have to spend in College.29 As she pursues her studies in anatomy, she meets Dr. White in the dissecting room and is assigned "the lower extremity of a woman, from which I expect to learn much that will be of great value to me in my future pursuits." March third marks Milford's fortieth birthday, and his 29-year-old wife prays the occasion will find him hopeful, "why should it not be," she exclaims, "with such brilliant attributes as he possesses." Continuing with the anatomical studies in the dissecting room, with now and then a simple diversion like a walk with Sister Pratt, Ellis works right through a week's vacation, finishing her own part "and nearly that of Mrs. Schultz" (her dissecting partner?). On March 7th she has received "a letter from Maggie containing an order for fifty dollars." Her response: "How liberal are those loved ones at home. May Heaven grant me the power to return with interest the many kindnesses I receive from them. I must not fail, if only for their sakes." But she has twice missed the regular weekly letter from Milford and, with some heart hunger for that, plus feeling sick and weary and having a headache, she seeks for "rest in quiet slumber-if it will only come." With Ellis, distress of spirit and physical illness are nearly always linked. She continues to experience both, right through the Class of 1876 Commencement wherein twelve women receive the M.D. |